Hearings

Overview of the Governor’s Budget and Segments Leader’s Perspective

California’s Response to HR 1:

Defending Health Care Affordability & Access – Part 1

Physician Workforce Development in the Wake of H.R.1:

Education, Training, & Retention

• Overview of H.R.1’s federal student loan policy changes and impact on medical education access
• Proposition 56 & Song-Brown state investments: graduate medical education and the physician supply in California
• Physician retention trends and workforce stability

• School Facilities
• Local Control Funding Formula
• Special Education
• Differentiated Assistance & System of Support
• Learning Recovery Block Grant
• Discretionary Block Grant

• Anti-Poverty, Anti- Hunger, and Equity Programs: CalFresh (including the Fruit and Vegetable Pilot Program), California Food Assistance Program (CFAP), CalFood (Emergency Food Banks), CalWORKs (including CalWORKs Family Stabilization, CalWORKs Homeless Assistance Program, and CalWORKs Housing Support Program), and Immigration and Refugee Programs
• Expected Impacts of Federal H.R. 1 on People and Proposals to Reduce Harm in California
• All Related January Governor’s Budget Proposals, including Policy and Estimate Changes, Budget Change Proposals for State Administration, and Governor’s Trailer Bill Language Proposals

• Proposal for CalFresh Enrollment for Eligible Students in Higher Education When Applying for Financial Aid

California’s Response to HR 1:

Defending Health Care Affordability & Access – Part 2

Federal Impacts on Coverage:

Medi-Cal, Covered California, and Immigrant Access to Care

• Medi-Cal eligibility and caseload impacts under HR 1
• Covered California enrollment, subsidies & health care

affordability programs
• Health care access for immigrant communities

PreK-12 and Early Education: Educator Pipeline & Support

• State of the Teacher Pipeline
• Teacher Residency expansion
• Golden State Teachers Program
• Computer Science Authorization
• SB 848 Implementation

• Foster Care and Child Welfare Services, including review of Overall Trends in Foster Care and Challenges, Tiered Rate Structure Implementation, Review of Immediate Needs Report, Bringing Families Home, and Foster Family Agency Insurance Payments
• Proposal for State Employment Opportunities for Foster Youth

• Proposal for Legal Representation for Tribal Foster Youth
• Community Care Licensing
• All Related January Governor’s Budget Proposals, including Policy and Estimate Changes, Budget Change Proposals for State Administration, and Governor’s Trailer Bill Language Proposals
• Expected Impacts of Federal H.R. 1 on Children and Proposals to Reduce Harm in California

• Review of Pass-Through Implementation for Formerly

Assisted Cases and Findings for Pass-Through to

Currently Assisted Cases
• Any January Governor’s Budget Proposals for

Child Support Services
• Expected Impacts of Federal H.R. 1 on

Families and Proposals to Reduce Harm in California

Affordable Housing and Sustainable Communities

California’s Response to HR 1:

Defending Health Care Affordability & Access – Part 3

Financing California’s Health Care Safety Net Under HR 1

• Overview of the Medi-Cal budget, estimate changes, budget change proposals, and trailer bills
• Proposition 56 investments: provider rates support
• Managed Care Organization Tax & Hospital Quality Assurance Fee Program
• State investments to protect access to reproductive health

services and gender-affirming care

• January Budget proposals for Early Childhood Education

• State of Universal Preschool Oversight

SUBJECT: 0530 California Health and Human Services Agency

4260 Department of Health Care Services

5180 Department of Social Services

4170 California Department of Aging

• Impacts of Federal and State Changes on Aging Californians

5180 Department of Social Services

• In-Home Supportive Services (IHSS) Program

• Adult Protective Services (APS) and Home Safe

• Proposal to Expand Home Safe to All Elders

At Risk of Homelessness

• Supplemental Security Income/State Supplementary Payment

(SSI/SSP) Program

• Housing and Disability Advocacy Program (HDAP)

• Community Care Expansion Program

• All Related January Governor’s Budget Proposals,

including Policy and Estimate Changes,

Budget Change Proposals for State Administration,

and Governor’s Trailer Bill Language Proposals

• Expected Impacts of Federal H.R. 1 on People Served in

These Programs and Proposals to Reduce Harm in California

4170 California Department of Aging

• Older Californians Act and Older Americans Act Funding, including

Area Agencies on Aging and Meals on Wheels Programs

• Recommendations to Create a “No Wrong Door” for Access to

Senior Supports and Services

• Trends and Responses to Senior Rural Suicides

• All Related January Governor’s Budget Proposals,

including Policy and Estimate Changes,

Budget Change Proposals for State Administration,

and Governor’s Trailer Bill Language Proposals

• Expected Impacts of Federal H.R. 1 on People Served in These

Programs and Proposals to Reduce Harm in California

California’s Response to Federal Retrenchment in Public Health

• Overview of budget, estimate changes, budget change

proposals, and trailer bills
• Oversight of network and partnership initiatives

• Community Schools Partnership Program
• Expanded Learning Opportunities Program
• Universal School Meals
• Kitchen Infrastructure and Training
• State Administrative proposals

• All Related January Governor’s Budget Proposals, including Policy and Estimate Changes, Budget Change Proposals for State Administration, and Governor’s Trailer Bill Language Proposals
• Expected Impacts of Federal H.R. 1 on People Served in These Programs and Proposals to Reduce Harm in California

Various Departments

• Overview of budgets, budget change proposals, and trailer bills

• Distressed Hospital Loan Program and CHFFA programs
• Rural Health Transformation Program
• Health Care Payments Database Implementation

• Career Master Plan Oversight
• Career Technical Education/Dual Enrollment Proposals
• Assessment Proposals

• Automation Projects, including the California Statewide Automated Welfare System (CalSAWS)
• Proposal for Continued Funding for the Stop The Hate Program Administered by the Department of Social Services
• All Related January Governor’s Budget Proposals for California Health and Human Services Agency and Department of Community Services and Development, including Policy and Estimate Changes, Budget Change Proposals for State Administration, and Governor’s Trailer Bill Language Proposals

• Expected Impacts of Federal H.R. 1 on People Served in These Programs and Proposals to Reduce Harm in California
• Spring Finance Letters for All Departments

Behavioral Health

• Overview of budgets, estimate changes, budget change

proposals, and trailer bills
• Oversight of the Children and Youth and Behavioral Health Initiative

• Behavioral Health Community-Based Organization Networks

of Equitable Care and Treatment Initiative (BH-CONNECT)
• Proposition 1 (2024): Behavioral Health Transformation

Implementation